Forget Chrome—Google Starts Tracking All Your Devices In 8 Weeks
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Forget Chrome—Google Starts Tracking All Your Devices In 8 Weeks
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Digital fingerprinting is suddenly back and it will be everywhere—here's what you need to know.

cross-posted from: https://fed.dyne.org/post/343234

Google Starts Fingerprint-Tracking All Your Devices In 8 Weeks

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TL;DR - Google makes (arguably insane) claim that it previously acted responsibly with regards to fingerprinting, and says they will begin acting irresponsibility with fingerprinting in February.

Practical take-aways you probably already knew:

  • Today’s Google may do or say anything to make an extra nickel.
  • Today’s Google, while it employs some excellent privacy minded engineers, has not demonstrated an organizational commitment to user privacy.
  • It is probably wise to assume that the next serious data breach at Google will end marriages, get politicians arrested, get famous people canceled, fuel successful scammers, and have every other privacy impact you can imagine. We know the Google data pool is massive, and we have reason to believe it is incredibly personal. I’m aware that Google has anonymozation solutions in play, and I do not believe those solutions will be effective in a breach scenario.
  • I believe that the average person will likely be better off ten years from now if they interact less with Google services.
DankOfAmerica
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It is probably wise to assume that the next serious data breach at Google will end marriages, get politicians arrested, get famous people canceled, fuel successful scammers, and have every other privacy impact you can imagine. We know the Google data pool is massive, and we have reason to believe it is incredibly personal. I’m aware that Google has anonymozation solutions in play, and I do not believe those solutions will be effective in a breach scenario.

That would be an interesting experiment. Maybe cancel culture and public shaming will cease whene everyone realizes no one is perfect and lost people do shitty things from time to time.

@douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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It won’t only a few will be targeted in the media and the same cancerous culture will continue.

@Reddfugee42@lemmy.world
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Like Google maps:

we anonymize your data before selling it. So it leaves your address every morning and goes to your office every morning but it’s completely anonymous.

@MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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Exactly. I don’t think I’m alone in feeling that Google’s clever privacy engineering isn’t enough to keep any of us safe.

Google’s expectation that we be okay with these practices feels like corporate gaslighting, to me.

@ryan213@lemmy.ca
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Thanks! The article was a bit of a tough read for me. Lol

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